Improvement in cake-griddles



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

JONATHAN V. TAYLOR, OF LANSINGBURG, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAKE-GRIDDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,459, dated August 27, 1878; application filed July 25, 1878.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, JONATHAN V. TAYLOR, of Lansingburg, in the county of Itensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Cake-Griddle, of which the following is a specification:

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents atop view of my improved cake-griddle, and Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical longitudinal and transverse sections of the same, respectively, on lines as w and y y, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

This invention relates to improvements in the griddle for which Letters Patent have been granted to E. A. Jeffry, under date of August 27, 1869, and No. 68,202, so that the same may be handled with greater facility and convenience, and the cakes finished in superior manner without being burned when dumping the same over to the other side.

The invention will first be described in connection with the drawing, and then pointed out in the claims.

The fixed plate is provided with raised lugs, on which the hinged plate is supported, so as to admit air to the cakes dumped by the swinging plate. The hinged plate is also provided with a hinged handle, that is retained by a projecting shoulder in upright position, and which admits the swinging over of the hinged plate without inconvenience.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the fixed or supporting plate of my improved griddle, to which is hinged a swinging plate, B, that rests, when in open position, on a supporting-rim of the plate A, which rim corresponds in size with the outline of plate B.

The entire griddle is raised from or lowered to the fire by means of fulcrumed handles 0, that are extended below their fulcra, so as to bear on the stove and carry, on being thrown outwardly or inwardly, the griddle away from the fire or closer to the same, so as to prevent the burning of the cakes.

The hinged plate B is provided with a number ofcircnlar indentations, that receive the batter, and with a hinged handle, D, that is retained by a projecting shoulder, a, in raised position on the plate B. WVhen the plate B is swung over on the fixed plate A the hinged handle 1) swings around with the plateB at the same time, and assumes an upright position again, as shown in dotted linesin Fig. 3. The cakes may thus be quickly dumped on the plate A without the least inconvenience, the handle being provided with wood or other non-conducting material, so as not to burn the fin gers.

When the cakes are done the hinged plate B is carried back again by the handle into open position to receive the next charge of batter. When the plate B is carried over for dumping the cakes in plate A it rests on raised lugs b of the same, so as to cause by the contact of the plate B therewith, first, the dropping of the cakes, and then the admission of air to the same, so that they may be baked without danger of getting burned or spoiled. The raised lugs I) support the hinged plate at some distance from the lower fixed plate, which forms an essential feature, as thereby a sufficient quantity of air is admitted to the cakes, and they are thereby finished in supe- IlOI' manner.

I am aware that the raising and lowering of the griddle by the fulcrumed handles have been done heretofore, and I do not claim the Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. In a cake-griddle, the combination of a fixed plate having raised lugs with a hinged plate that dumps the cakes and rests on the lugs, so as to admit air to the cakes between the plates, substantially as specified.

2. In a cake-griddle, the combination of a fixed plate with a swinging plate having a hinged handle, with a projecting shoulder bearing on the plate, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

JONATHAN V. TA YLOR.

\Vitnesses:

PAUL GoEPEL, S. W. SMITH. 

